[Jeffrey Ellis]

That sounds good.

BTW, thanks for all your help with this. I never could have gotten these looking as good as they do (well, as good as they can < grin >), without you.

All My Best,
Jeffrey

[Jeffrey Ellis]

Hi Jeffrey,
Absolutely agreement with Tom.
This is the kind of fonts that will complicate your life whatever the application you use.
Two more things:
– Don’t render in Animation (RGB) when you are going to a DVD (YUV).
– In the Boris 3D Control tab, check the “Deflicker 1.2.1” button.
It helps when scrolling texts.
rafel

In that case which YUV codec should I use?

BTW, sorry, but that was the stuff ordered… not my doing

[Jeffrey Ellis]

This is a screenshot of the .psd rendered using the u8 codec:

and here’s one of it rendered using the Animation codec:

As you can see they both looked terrible. But they also looked to me like it may be as simple as an interlacing issue. So here’s the last test, u8, Field Dominance set to None:

🙂

So now, a far simpler question. Which is going to give me higher quality for DVD output, u8, or Animation, or something else, perhaps?

All My Best,
Jeffrey

[Jeffrey Ellis]

DV.

Also, I misspoke again a bit. The titles generated in Boris look great rendered. The .psd scroll looks bad even just rendered.

I have another problem. I looked at the scrolling .psd file.It has 3d text (text with embossing and drop shadows), as well as the leads underlined, hence Camera (underlined) Joe Schmoe (non-underlined). So I think this would be rather difficult to reproduce if I had to abandon the .psd.

[Jeffrey Ellis]

Absolutely. They all look great until they’re encoded.

BTW, I misspoke when I said I was using Boris Calligraphy. It’s actually Boris Titles 3D.

[Jeffrey Ellis]

BlackMagic support told me I couldn’t use HDMI because it would be encoded so it couldn’t be copied over. Is there some other way to do this?

[Jeffrey Ellis]

It’s a DVR.

[Jeffrey Ellis]

Ah. That’s got it working.

Thanks very much, Chris.

Jeffrey